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M-9 USS FLORIDA

Arkansas Class Monitor: Displacement 3,225 tons. Dimensions, 255 x 50 x 12.5 feet/77.75 x 15.24 x 3.81 meters. Armament 1 dual 12/40, 4 single 4/50, 3 6-pound. Armor, Harvey: 5-11 inch belt, 9-11 inch barbettes, 9-10 inch turrets, 7.5 inch CT. Machinery, VTE engines, 4 boilers, 2 shafts, 2,400 hp, Speed, 12.5 Knots, Crew 220.

Operational and Building Data: Built by Lewis Nixon at Crescent Shipyard, Elizabethport, NJ. Laid down 23 January 1899, launched 30 November 1901, commissioned 18 June 1903. Operated as a training ship during the summers, then assigned to the Naval Academy as a full-time training ship in 1906. Decommissioned to reserve 11 September 1906; recommissioned for a training cruise 7 June 1907; decommissioned to reserve 30 August 1907. Recommissioned for use in experiments with superfiring guns 21 May 1908; decommissioned to reserve 19 June 1908.

Renamed Tallahassee, 1 July 1908. Recommissioned to commissioned reserve 1 August 1910 as a gunnery test ship and submarine tender. Sank target ship San Marcos, 22 March 1911. Operated as a submarine tender during WWI. Decommissioned to reserve 3 December 1918.

Assigned as a reserve training ship 19 February 1920 but not recommissioned; recommissioned as a training ship, 3 August 1920. Designation BM 9 assigned 17 July 1920; redesignated IX, (no number) 1 July 1921.
Fate: Decommissioned for disposal 24 March 1922; sold for scrapping 25 July 1922.

Size	Image Description	Contributed By And/Or Copyright
177k	"U.S. Monitors Arkansas (M-7), Connecticut (M-8), Florida (M-9) and Wyoming (M-10)". Pen and ink side elevation and plan view, by the Bureau of Construction and Repair. These monitors (numbers 7-10, respectively) were built under the 1898 ship construction program. *Connecticut* was renamed *Nevada* in January 1901, after launching but more than two years before completion.	U.S. Naval Historical Center photo # NH 61879.
94k	Florida (M-9) under construction at Crescent Shipyard, Elizabethport, NJ., circa 1901-03. Another characteristic of the "New Navy" monitors was the towering stack.	U.S. Navy photo courtesy of Andrew Toppan / Hazegray & Underway. Text courtesy of "Monitors of the U.S. Navy, 1861-1937", pg 44, by Lt. Richard H. Webber, USNR-R. (LOC) Library of Congress, Catalog Card No. 77-603596.
58k	The monitors (front to back, left side) Puritan (BM-1), Nevada (M-8), & Florida (M-9) with the cruisers (front to back, right side) Denver (C-14), Cleveland (C-19), & Tacoma(C-18), steam in line abreast, circa probably mid-late 1900's.	USNI / USN photo.
72k	Florida (M-9) photographed by Enrique Miller in 1904, while serving with the Coast Squadron trained midshipmen on summer cruises, and operated along the east coast and in the Caribbean waters.	Photo courtesy of greatwhitefleet.info, by William Stewart. Text courtesy of DANFS.
84k	"Eager crowds viewing the submarines at the foot of 135TH street with the Rhode Island (BB-17) in mid stream." The submarine tender is either the Arkansas (M-7), Tonopah (M-8) or Florida (M-9).	Photo by H.H. Russell, courtesy of memory.loc.gov. Text courtesy of N.Y. Times, 16 May 1915, Page 1.
73k	The submarines K-5 (SS-36) and K-6 (SS-37) alongside the monitor *Tallahassee, ex-Florida* (M-9) at Hampton Roads, Virginia, 19 December 1916.	Photo from National Archives & Record Administration (NARA), Record Group 19-N, Box 33. Courtesy of Dan Treadwell.
376k	A guest studies a painting depicting the history of battleships. The artwork was painted by George Skybeck and presented to the Pearl Harbor Survivors Association during their annual banquet at Honolulu, Hawaii, on 8 Dec 1991.	USN photo # DN-SC-92-05391, by PHC Carolyn Harris, from the Department of Defense Still Media Collection, courtesy of dodmedia.osd.mil.

USS FLORIDA M-9 History
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(Located On The Hazegray & Underway Web Site, This Is The Main Archive For The DANFS Online Project.)

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